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LAWS 



OF 



OLBY University, 



WATERVILLE, ME. 




WATERVILLE, ME.: 
Printed at the Mail Office. 

1S94. 



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LAWS OF COLBY UNIVERSITY. 

Appkoved by the Board of Trustees, June 27, 1894. 



CHAPTER I. 

MEMBERSHIP. 

§ 1. Organization. 



Colby University is composed of two co-ordinate colleges — a col- 
lecre for men and a college for women. The requirements for admission, 
the conditions of scholarship, and the Faculty of instruction and govern- 
ment are the same for both. The two colleges, hosvever, are distinct 
and separate, and in class organization, rank, prize-contests, appoint- 
ments, and honors, their members are treated independently. 

§ 2. Admission and Dismission. 

1. The students of each college shall be arranged in four classes, 
called the Freshman Class, the Sophomore Class, the Junior Class, and 
the Senior Class. Any person may be admitted to the Freshman Class 
by passing examination upon such preparatory studies as may be 
prescribed and published in the catalogue. Upon certain conditions, 
however, a certificate of the Principal of a fitting school of high grade 
will be received in lieu of such examination. But no person shall be 
entitled to admission into either class without first presenting, when 
required, testimonials of good moral character ; nor shall a member of 
any other college be received without a certificate of dismissal from 
that college. 

2. No person shall be admitted to an advanced standing, without 
passing examination upon those studies, or their equivalent, which have 
been pursued by the class which he wishes to enter ; and every person 
thus admitted shall pay into the treasury, for every full term's advance- 
ment, the sum charged for a term's tuition. Applicants presenting 
certificates of dismissal from other colleges, however, will not be required 
to pay tuition for the terms covered by their certificates. [See, further, 
ch. X.] 

3. Persons of suitable age and attainments may enter upon a 
Partial Course in accordance with the following conditions : 



(1) No person shall be allowed to enter upon a partial course of 
less than one year, and while in attendance, shall be subject to the 
same sjeneral regulations as students of full standing. 

(2) All partial students entering college shall offer for admission 
studies representing 35 points on the basis of the following scliedule : 

Greek, 15. 
Latin, 15. 
Algebra, 10. 
Geometry, 10. 
French, 10. 
German, 10. 

(3) Partial students entering advanced courses in any study shall 
pass examination on previous courses in the same study. 

(4) Partial students shall attend at least one course with the 
Freshman or the Sophomore class during each term of their first year of 
attendance. 

(5) Partial students shall attend and pass examinations in ■courses 
amounting to at least 8 hours weekly during each term. 

(6) No partial student shall enter upon a term's work with more 
than one deficiency. 

(7) Partial students shall give bonds to the amount of $100.00 as 
security for the payment of college dues. 

(8) On leaving, partial students shall be entitled to a certificate of 
their respective acquirements in the studies on which they have passed 
an examination. 

4. Every student, on his admission, shall be furnished with a 
printed copy of these Laws ; and liis signature to a pledge on his part of 
conformity thereto shall be his matriculation. 

5. Every student, until dismissed, shall, whether present or absent, 
unless absent by permission during an entire collegiate year, be required 
to pay the regular term bills. 

6. Any student not under college censure shall have an honorable 
dismission at any time previous to the last term of the Senior year, at 
the request of his parents or guardian (if of age, at his own request) ; 
provided that his college dues have been paid, and that his deportment 
during his connection with the institution has been satisfactory. But no 
student shall be dismissed, except by a vote of the Faculty. 

7. If, in the judgment of the Faculty, the example of any student 
is injurious to the intellectual or moral life of the college, he shall be 
advised to take his dismission, even though no specific charge is made 
against him. 



CHAPTER II. 

DEPORTMENT. 

1. Maintenance of order upon the Campus and within the dormi- 
tories is intrusted to tlie Student Committee of the Board of Conference. 
This committee acts according to rules approved by the Board of Con- 
ference, and in conformity with tliese Laws. 

2. No student shad be absent a term, or go out of the city of 
Waterville in term time, so as to be absent from any college exercise, 
without permission from the President. 

3. No student shall enter the room of another student, at any 
time, without his permission. 

4. No student shall be concerned in any combination to resist the 
laws of the College, or to disturb its order; and any violation of this 
law shall be considered a grave offense. 

5. No class meeting, or assembly of students, for purposes at 
variance with the college laws shall at any time be held. 

6. No publications shall be issued by the students except by the 
express permission of, and under regulations prescribed by the Faculty. 

7. No club or society shall be formed in the college unless a state- 
ment of its purposes with the rules by which it is to be governed, and its 
hours of meeting, be previously submitted to the Faculty for approval ; 
and such associations, shall at all times be subject to the direction of 
the Faculty. 

8. L'isorders and misdemeanors, against which no express pro- 
vision is made in the laws, may be punished according to the nature and 
gravity of the offence. 

9. Demerits in any term to the number of five place a student 
under college censure; to the number of ten, place a student upon 
probation ; to the number of fifteen suspend a student from membership 
in the college. 



CHAPTER III. 

STANDING. 

1. The elements of rank are scholarship, attendance, and 
deportment. [See further, chs. iv and vi.] 

2. At the close of every term, each otficer shall present to the 
Registrar a written statement of the standing of each student in the 
several courses under his charge. These statements shall be carefully 
recorded and preserved by the Registrar. 

3. At the close of each academic year, the average of the three 



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terms shall be recorded ; and the average of the four years shall be 
taken after the final examination. 

4. In making up the standing of students, all violations of law 
shall be marked as demerits, and such value shall be assigned to them 
as, in the judgment of the Faculty, they deserve. 



CHAPTER IV. 

EXAMINATIONS. 

1. An examination of the classes shall be held at the close of 
each term and at such other times as the Faculty shall appoint. 

2. The examinations shall be in writing, and three hours in length, 
except in case of studies calling for less than four recitations per week, 
to which two hours shall be given. 

3. Students shall be furnished at the time of examination with 
blank books, of uniform size and style, which shall be charged at cost in 
their term bills. 

4. No student shall speak to another, or communicate with another 
in any way, or leave the room without permission during the progress of 
the examination, or bring with him any paper, or notes, or text-book, 
unless directed to do so by the professor in charge. Any student vio- 
lating these regulations shall be marked zero. Any student who shall 
be excused to leave the room before the examination is finished, may, 
at the discretion of the officer in charge, be furnished with an additional 
book and other questions. If a student finishes his paper before the 
expiration of the required time, he may be assigned additional work, for 
which proper credit shall be given. 

5. The value of the examination shall be as one part in five, the 
term's rank constituting the other four parts. 

6. No student who has failed in any study to secure a rank of six 
on a scale of ten shall be admitted to examination in that study with 
his class. And no student who falls below six in an examination shall 
be regarded as having passed that examination. 

7. When a student fails to be admitted to the regular examination 
in any study, but succeeds finally in passing it, he shall be given a rank 
of six in the term's work, to be combined in the usual way with the rank 
secured on the examination, in estimating the term's rank. 

8 No student failing twice to pass in any study shall be allowed 
further trial except by special permission of the Faculty. 

9. Examinations on deficiences in studies of previous terms shall 
be held at the time of the term-examinations and also on the first three 
days of each term. The order of such deficiency examinations of the 
several officers shall be that given on blanks to be obtained of the 



Librarian. Each student intending to be examined on deficiences shall 
report to the Librarian on or before the first day {Wednesday) of the 
term, the studies on which he is prepared. Students taking examina- 
tions at other times than those thus provided will be charged a special 
fee of five dollars. 

10. The final examination of the Senior class shall be held on the 
third Wednesday preceding Commencement. 



CHAPTER V. 

DEFICIENCIES. 

1. Any student who shall be absent, excused or unexcused, from 
a required exercise in any department, or, being present, shall be 
excused from reciting, shall be marked zero. Any student whose absence 
shall be excused, or who shall be excused from reciting, shall be per- 
mitted to make up the work, and in case he does so, shall receive 
credit therefor. Any student who shall be absent unexcused, shall, 
besides being marked zero, be subject to such additional penalty as the 
Faculty may determine. 

2. Deficiencies are to be made up as follows: Those not exceeding 
two recitations within one week. Those exceeding two and not exceed- 
ing five, in two weeks. Those exceeding five, at such examinations as 
may be appointed by the officer in charge. Deficiencies in any course 
in which there are not daily recitations shall be made up in such a man- 
ner as may be prescribed by the officer in charge of the course. 

3. All deficiencies not made up at the close of any term, shall be 
reported in the term bill. 

4. Any deficiencies in the studies preparatory for college must be 
made up by the beginning of the third term. 

5. Should any member of a class appear to the Faculty, on ex- 
amination, to be greatly deficient, he may be degraded to the next lower 
class. If the deficiency be such as can be remedied by diligence, the 
Faculty may allow him to make it up during the ensuing vacation, and 
examine him at the beginning of the succeeding term ; at which time he 
may be permitted to retain his rank, or may be degraded as he shall 
appear to deserve. 

6. No deficiency in back studies shall be allowed to stand for 
more than one year from the beginning of the term following that in 
which it shall occur. 

7. No student who is deficient in more than four courses 
shall be allowed to go on with his class. He may, however, by a vote 
of the Faculty, be permitted to go on in a Partial Course, in which case 
his name shall so appear in the next catalogue. 



8. Members of the Senior Class will be required to make up all 
deficiencies before entering on the studies of the last term. Those of 
the class, however, who teach dui'ing the second term, will be allowed 
to make up the work of that term after their return. 



CHAPTER VI. 



EXCUSES. 



1. Any student who may return after the opening of a term, shall 
report himself immediately to the President, and if excused, obtain cer- 
tificates to that effect, to be presented to the officers in charge of the 
several departments, as a condition of admission to recitations. 

2. Excuses frdm any general exercise of the college must be pre- 
sented to the President, except as otherwise provided for. 

3. Whenever a student is absent from any exercise at which his 
presence is required, he shall immediately present to the officer in charge 
of such exercise, an excuse for his absence ; and until he shall have pre- 
sented such excuse, he shall be considered absent from all exercises of 
such officer. 

4. All excuses must be made in writing, stating clearly and defi- 
nitely the cause of the absence. Such excuses as the following will not 
be considered satisfactory: "necessarily absent;" "out of town" 
(except when excused by the President); preparing other class, college, 
or society exercise. 

5. The effect of absences on standing is as follows : 

(1) F^or each uuexcused absence a deduction of .10 (ten one- 
hundredths) on a scale of ten shall be made from the student's term- 
rank in the department in which the absence occurs. 

(2) For each excused absence a deduction of .02 (two one- 
bundredths) on a scale of ten shall be made from the student's term- 
rank in the department in which the absence occurs. But in no case 
shall such deduction for excused absences exceed .20 (twenty one- 
hundredths), and in case of prolonged illness or absence for the purpose 
of teaching, no deduction shall be made. 



CHAPTER VII. 

EXHIBITIONS. 

1. The following public exhibitions shall be held each academic 
year : Senior Exhibition, Junior Debate, Junior Exhibition, Sophomore 
Declamation, and Freshman Reading. The Senior Exhibition shall be 



held near the close of the Fall Term ; the Junior Debate near the close 
of the Winter Term ; the Freshman Reading, on the sixth, and the 
Sophomore Declamation on the eighth Friday evening of the Spring 
Term ; the Junior Exhibition on the evening of Monday in Commence- 
ment week. 

2. Commencement appointments are made as follows: (1) Five 
from the graduating class of each college shall be appointed for excel- 
lence in general scholarship throughout their college course ; and four 
from the graduating class of each college, on the merits of their articles. 
(2) From these thus appointed, nine speakers shall be chosen, the 
number of speakers from each class to be proportionate to the member- 
ship of the class. 

3. Speakers shall be chosen for college exhibitions on the follow- 
ing grounds : 

(1) For the Senior Exhibition, six members from each class on 
the merits of their articles. 

r2) For the Junior Debate, three speakers to represent the affir- 
mative, and three to represent the negative, on the merits of their 
arguments submitted in writing. 

(3) For the Junior Declamation, on the merits of their articles. 

(4) For the Sophomore Declamation, on the combined rank in 
Elocution, Rhetoric, and Composition. 

(5) For the Freshman Reading, by competitive reading before a 
committee chosen by the Faculty. 

4. In no exhibition shall the number of speakers exceed ten ; and 
the number of speakers from each of the two classes shall be proportion- 
ate to the membership of the class. 

5. Articles intended for any public exhibition shall be pre- 
pared and passed to the Professor of Rhetoric at least five weeks before 
the time at which they are to be delivered. 

6. No student who is in the Partial Course, and no student who is 
under college censure shall be appointed on any college exhibition. 

7. Failure to attend rehearsals or to make suitable preparation for 
an exhibition shall cause a student to forfeit his appointment. 



CHAPTER VIII. 

WORSHIP. 



1. All students are required to attend regular Chapel exercises. 

2. All students are required to attend public worship at least once 
on each Sunday of the term. Where they shall attend shall be 
determined by the election of each one, if of age ; if under age, by the 
election of parent or guardian. 



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3. At the end of each term, students shall hand to the Registrar 
a record of their church attendance during the term. Failure to attend 
church shall be noted upon the student's term-bill. 



CHAPTER IX. 

TERMS, VACATIONS, AND COMMENCEMENT. 

1. The college year consists of 36 weeks and is divided into three 
terms. 

The Fall term begins thirteen weeks before the Wednesday next 
preceding Christmas, and continues — with a recess at Thanksgiving — 
thirteen weeks. 

The Christmas recess is two weeks in length. 

The Winter term begins two weeks after the Wednesday next 
preceding Christmas, and continues ten weeks. 

The Spring term begins thirteen weeks before the Wednesday 
next preceding the Fourth of July, and continues thirteen weeks. 

2. Commencement Day is the Wednesday next preceding the 
Fourth of July. 



CHAPTER X. 

ROOMS, BILLS, AND EXPENSES. 

1. Rooms shall be assigned to the students by the Committee on 
Rooms in accordance with such regulations as may be authorized by 
the Faculty. 

2. No exchange of rooms shall be effected by students without the 
consent of the Committee on Rooms. 

3. Occupants of rooms shall be held responsible for order in their 
rooms. Failure to preserve order may subject a student to forfeiture of 
his room. 

4. At the close of the summer term, a key to each room shall be 
left with the janitor. No student shall occupy a room during the sum- 
mer vacation except by the express permission of the President. 

5. Damage done the buildings or premises, shall be repaired, and 
the expense, whatever it may be, shall be charged to the person or per- 
sons who did the damage. If the authors are unknown, the cost of 
repairs shall be assessed equally on the members of the college in which 
the damage is done. 

6. In the case of damage to a room, when the authors are unknown, 



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the cost of repairs shall be charged to the persons occupying the room. 

7. At the close of each term, bills shall be renddred, in which 
the students shall severally be charged the following sums, viz: for 
tuition, 4p20 ; for room rent, according to location of room; for the use 
of the library and gymnasium, !$5.(>0; for ordinary repairs, for employ- 
ment of janitor, monitors, and bell ringer, for a copy of ihe laws, and of 
the annual catalogue, and for expense of heating public rooms, $5.00. 

A separate charge shall be made for heating private rooms. 

In the bills for the last term of each academic year, there shall be 
charged the additional sum of $'2.00 toward the expense of the public 
dinner at Commencement, and of the oration ; and in the last term bills 
of the Senior class shall be charged the further sum of twenty-five cents 
for General Catalogues, and S5 as compensation for diplomas. 

Similar bills shall be made out against graduate students in residence 
except for the Commencement dinner, catalogues, and diplomas. 

8. Bills must be paid at the commencement of each term after the 
first, or at such other times as the Treasurer may designate. In case of 
failure the student may be excluded from examination. 

9. Any student not from another college, entering this institu- 
tion at an advanced point in the course, shall pay to to the Treasurer a 
sum equal to the regular tuition to that time. If, however, he shall be 
graduated here, one-third of this amount shall be remitted. 

10. The procuring of music for Exhibitions shall be left to the 
students, subject to the approval of the F'aculty ; and the bills therefor 
shall not be included in the term bill, but shall be paid directly by 
the students. 



chaptp:r XI. 

DEGREP]S. 

1. No degree shall be conferred unless authorized by the P>oard 
of Trustees. 

2. If any member of the class shall neglect to rehearse at the 
time and place appointed, or to attend to any presciibed duty of Com 
mencement week, or shall refuse or neglect to perform his part on 
Commencement day, or shall presume to deliver in public what has 
not been approved, the degree shall be withheld. 

3. No student shall be entitled to a degree, unless he shall have 
settled all demands of the University against him. 

4. Students who have satisfactorily completed the course pre- 
scribed and who shall have paid all college dues shall receive the 
degree of Bachelor of Arts. 



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5. The degree of Master of Arts, except as an honorary degree, 
shall be given only upon examination. Those, however, who have 
been students in the regular course at any time hitherto or who are or 
may become members of the classes to graduate in 1894, 1895, and 
1896 may receive the degree "in course" by fulfilling the conditions 
formerly prescribed to that end. 

6. Persons who have received a degree at any other college, may, 
with the approbation of the Trustees, be admitted ad eundem. 

7. Any person who has received a degree at this University, may 
have a diploma signed by the President and sealed with the tlniver- 
sity seal ; and he shall pay to the Treasurer five dollars to defray the 
expense of the diploma. But all honorary degrees conferred by the 
Trustees on account of distinguished merit shall be free from all charge. 



CHAPTER XII. 

LIBRARY REGULATIONS. 

1. Members of the Corporation, officers a,nd students of the Uni- 
versity, graduates and clergymen residing in Waterville, shall be en- 
titled to the use of the Library. This privilege may, in special cases, 
be extended to other persons approved by the Library Committee, or by 
permission of the President. 

2. The Library shall be open during term time, Sundays and holi- 
days excepted, from 9 a.m. to 12.30 p.m., and from 2.30 to 5.30 p.m. 

3. Visitors to the Library are enjoined to refrain from loud con- 
versation or any noise calculated to disturb readers, and to return to its 
proper place any volume taken from the shelves. 

4. It is the duty of the Librarian to keep a careful record of all 
books received into and issued from the Library, and no book shall be 
taken from the room without being entered on the Register, 

5. No person, except officers of instruction, shall be entitled to 
take from the Library or have in his possession more than three volumes 
at a time. In special cases, extra volumes, not exceeding three in num- 
ber, may be loaned for a short time at the discretion of the Librarian. 

6. Any text-books in the Library suitable for use in the classes, 
may be loaned for an entire session or term, on application to the Libra- 
rian. These shall coustitute a special loan, for which a compensation 
shall be charged according to the value of the book and the time and 
manner in which it shall have been used. 

7. No book taken from the Library, except text-books, shall be 
kept longer than three weeks, without renewal. No pamphlet or 
periodical shall be retained longer than three days. Works of reference 



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shall not be loaned except by special permission, and only from the 
close of one library day till the opening of the next. The Librarian 
may further restrict the circulation of books not easily replaced. 

8. No book shall be renewed if any other person entitled to bor- 
row the same has given notice that he wishes it on its return. 

9. The Librarian may, at his discretion, permit undergraduates to 
take away for their use in vacation, three volumes selected from such as 
may be readily replaced. Books thus loaned are returnable on or before 
the first Monday of the following term unless otherwise arranged. 

10. Any student retaining a volume or pamphlet longer than the 
time specified, shall be charged two cents for each day of retention. An 
overdue book may be sent for by the Librarian at the borrower's ex- 
pense. A book one month overdue shall be considered lost. 

11. If a book be lost, or damaged beyond reasonable wear, the 
borrower shall be held responsible for the loss or damage, the amount 
of which shall be fixed by the Librarian. Notes and marks of any kind, 
folding down leaves, exposing a book to heat or damp, are expressly 
forbidden. 

12. Undergraduates are required to return all books to the Libra- 
ry before the day of the final examination at the close of each term 
For every book not returned by the time specified a penalty oftwenty-five 
cents may be imposed. 

13. Officers, students, and all persons who may have books 
borrowed from the Library, are required to return the same on or be- 
fore the Saturday preceding Commencement, for the annual examina- 
tion of the Library. 

14. For willful violation of any Library rule, the Librarian shall 
suspend the offender from the privileges of the Library until the case 
can be acted upon by the Library Committee. 



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